Most people learn early on to think twice about what they post when they have had a few drinks.

When you have a job like he has posting negative stuff when drunk can cost you your entire career if it was me I would be know where near twitter after a drink!

When you work for an organisation that actively encourages that side of your character and (depending on the presenter) pays for it, its a bit rich for them to suddenly find it distasteful.

Just gate crashing the thread to agree with both the above posts.
I very rarely listen to the station any more, but have been following what’s being said about Mike Parry’s tweet; not a big fan of Jim White but I feel genuinely sorry for him over this; it was totally uncalled for and wrong,
If people know that drink brings out the worst in them they should ban themselves from social media whilst drinking ( I’m actually quite shocked at seeing how vitriolic Parry can be; I’d always assumed he was fairly easy going behind all the bluff and bluster).
But yes, TS does encourage “banter” and a drinking culture, to distasteful levels - it’s almost a requisite for some of their employees to have behaved appallingly, or forgotten to stay away from their cars, while drunk; I’m all for second chances, but TS goes above and beyond! So I highly doubt Parry will be fired.

If Parry does get the shove, it would probably be because of the cumulative effect of past incidents rather than solely as a result of the Tweet. I would be surprised if he wasn't on some kind of warning following the Andrew 'Beef' Johnston business not long ago, which makes this rather harder to resolve. Parry was lucky to be rehired anyway.

Yeah, let's not pretend this is a one-off, it's clearly a pattern. Brazil being unsackable doesn't help things, but Parry is on overnights, though they're clearly quite successful there, it's not the place to be throwing your considerable weight around.

Most people learn early on to think twice about what they post when they have had a few drinks.

When you have a job like he has posting negative stuff when drunk can cost you your entire career if it was me I would be know where near twitter after a drink!

When you work for an organisation that actively encourages that side of your character and (depending on the presenter) pays for it, its a bit rich for them to suddenly find it distasteful.

Quite. It was like when the station decided to promote healthy drinking a few weeks ago - time and again the presenters sounded totally confused as to how to deal with it, and at times it was comically hypocritical.

If Parry does get the shove, it would probably be because of the cumulative effect of past incidents rather than solely as a result of the Tweet. I would be surprised if he wasn't on some kind of warning following the Andrew 'Beef' Johnston business not long ago, which makes this rather harder to resolve. Parry was lucky to be rehired anyway.

Even the 'Beef' incident was just silly. Was it worse than Barton complaining about overweight Everton managers? I think Barton has now realised he can get away with what he likes while others get penalised, and he's relishing the inconsistency. There can't be many people at the station who can stand him by now.

I’ll be surprised if Joey Barton goes to Russia after his latest twitter outburst. Even Mark Saggers has had enough and called him out. Unfortunately Adrian Durum appeared to defend JB. I’d be surprised if he made to the end of the season on talkSPORT.

I’ll be surprised if Joey Barton goes to Russia after his latest twitter outburst. Even Mark Saggers has had enough and called him out. Unfortunately Adrian Durum appeared to defend JB. I’d be surprised if he made to the end of the season on talkSPORT.

We can only hope. There have been so many good additions to the talkSPORT co-commentary team in recent years - Matt Holland, Danny Higginbotham, Danny Gabbidon, Adrian Clarke and Adam Virgo to name but a few - which makes it even more frustrating that a walking, talking ego like Joey Barton has gone straight into being a Matchday Live regular on name value alone and seems to have acquired the plumb Saturday 5.30pm co-commentary gig upon the departure of Stuart Pearce. There are very few members of talkSPORT's live football coverage team who actively make me switch off, but he is one of them.

As I can't see him calming down and winding his neck in when it comes to levelling excessive personal criticism at people like David Unsworth, I really hope his tenure comes to an abrupt end before we get to the World Cup. talkSPORT can do much, much better. Barton might get you headlines, but are they the sort of ones you really want to be attracting?

If Parry does get the shove, it would probably be because of the cumulative effect of past incidents rather than solely as a result of the Tweet. I would be surprised if he wasn't on some kind of warning following the Andrew 'Beef' Johnston business not long ago, which makes this rather harder to resolve. Parry was lucky to be rehired anyway.

Even the 'Beef' incident was just silly. Was it worse than Barton complaining about overweight Everton managers? I think Barton has now realised he can get away with what he likes while others get penalised, and he's relishing the inconsistency. There can't be many people at the station who can stand him by now.

If Parry does get the shove, it would probably be because of the cumulative effect of past incidents rather than solely as a result of the Tweet. I would be surprised if he wasn't on some kind of warning following the Andrew 'Beef' Johnston business not long ago, which makes this rather harder to resolve. Parry was lucky to be rehired anyway.

Even the 'Beef' incident was just silly. Was it worse than Barton complaining about overweight Everton managers? I think Barton has now realised he can get away with what he likes while others get penalised, and he's relishing the inconsistency. There can't be many people at the station who can stand him by now.

Brazil is still there for all the eff ups he makes

Thought he was pashed, as soon as he came on air @ 06.07 this morning !
Great news from H & J ...... That band fae Sheffield that has burst yer ears for the last 20 years.
aint going tae Russia , looks like there is god after all , Billy that posted on this thread for years, will be gutted when he reads this, glad hes got Slades shoulder tae cry on these days !

They too knob ends really shouldn't be late loose, after a Euro night, they cant help them self's from ganging up on someone thats had few drinks, & likes to phone the show .......... Its like 'The Dog’s Pack-Mentality '

I caught the last part of Brazil's show this morning for the first time in ages. Boy is he dense. Getting a thought to process its way through his brain to his mouth is a bit like those old games where you had a silver ball in a maze and you had to keep tilting the thing one way and then another until the ball reached the middle. Except with Brazil, by the time it gets there, he's talking about something else.

This morning he was asking whether another English player would emulate Michael Owen and Kevin Keegan and win the Ballon D'or. Then he let Ginola answer. Then he said, 'What about Hazard, do you think he'll ever have a chance?' What??? Then when Ginola recalled that George Best should have won it, Brazil leaps in and points out,'No, he wasn't English, he was Northern Irish, but I get what you mean'. Then he asked Ginola if Keegan had ever won it -
you just said he had, you buffoon!!! It's utterly mad the whole programme. (At least he didn't ask Ginola if they have Christmas in France. He's already asked him if they have bees over there!')

I caught the last part of Brazil's show this morning for the first time in ages. Boy is he dense. Getting a thought to process its way through his brain to his mouth is a bit like those old games where you had a silver ball in a maze and you had to keep tilting the thing one way and then another until the ball reached the middle. Except with Brazil, by the time it gets there, he's talking about something else.

This morning he was asking whether another English player would emulate Michael Owen and Kevin Keegan and win the Ballon D'or. Then he let Ginola answer. Then he said, 'What about Hazard, do you think he'll ever have a chance?' What??? Then when Ginola recalled that George Best should have won it, Brazil leaps in and points out,'No, he wasn't English, he was Northern Irish, but I get what you mean'. Then he asked Ginola if Keegan had ever won it -
you just said he had, you buffoon!!! It's utterly mad the whole programme. (At least he didn't ask Ginola if they have Christmas in France. He's already asked him if they have bees over there!')

Brazil’s always longing to belittle anyone he thinks talks sense. I do have to ask myself though whether Brazil knows the meaning of the word sense, he certainly doesn’t speak it.

Alan Brazil, the mainstay of talkSPORT for nearly two decades, is to have talks with the management about his future this month, with his contract expiring at the end of the year.

Brazil wants to hear the bosses' plans for the flagship breakfast show and who they see as his co-hosts before committing to another stint. With the station in some turmoil following a number of staff leaving, new pundit Joey Barton proving a loose cannon and Mike Parry attacking colleague Jim White on social media, it's imperative for the station that Brazil signs a new contract.

Interesting that Sale is framing this as Brazil wanting to hear management's plans for the show, as opposed to it being management weighing up whether to retain him on their flagship show for another year/number of years. The bit about him wanting to hear their plans for who his co-hosts will be is particularly intriguing - maybe he's as keen on Joey Barton as most of the people who contribute to this thread are?

Alan Brazil, the mainstay of talkSPORT for nearly two decades, is to have talks with the management about his future this month, with his contract expiring at the end of the year.

Brazil wants to hear the bosses' plans for the flagship breakfast show and who they see as his co-hosts before committing to another stint. With the station in some turmoil following a number of staff leaving, new pundit Joey Barton proving a loose cannon and Mike Parry attacking colleague Jim White on social media, it's imperative for the station that Brazil signs a new contract.

Interesting that Sale is framing this as Brazil wanting to hear management's plans for the show, as opposed to it being management weighing up whether to retain him on their flagship show for another year/number of years. The bit about him wanting to hear their plans for who his co-hosts will be is particularly intriguing - maybe he's as keen on Joey Barton as most of the people who contribute to this thread are?

Yes that is very interesting Diff, especially the bit about TS thinking it ‘imperative’ they retain the services of Brazil. I do think you have the Joey Barton reference right

Isn’t it very late in the day to be discussing contract negotiations? Brinkmanship is not always the best way to go ....

He's a strange cove. Every morning he makes an argument that's so stunningly stupid and/or naive that the calls pour in saying he's stupid and/or naive, and then he starts whining 'I'm getting destroyed here but I don't care' when he obviously does. Weird.

And Bob Mills: I used to like his TV sow, but god knows what's happened to him. Is he unaware that he slurs so much he sounds permanently sloshed? Has no one had a word with him about it?? I find it painful to hear these days.

And Bob Mills: I used to like his TV sow, but god knows what's happened to him. Is he unaware that he slurs so much he sounds permanently sloshed? Has no one had a word with him about it?? I find it painful to hear these days.

I think he is more talented than the average TS hack (although he knows jack sh*t about sport), but he just drinks too much.

I know I have read, although I didn't see this personally, that he used to turn up to present Games World noticeably p*ssed back in the 90s.

Alan Brazil, the mainstay of talkSPORT for nearly two decades, is to have talks with the management about his future this month, with his contract expiring at the end of the year.

Brazil wants to hear the bosses' plans for the flagship breakfast show and who they see as his co-hosts before committing to another stint. With the station in some turmoil following a number of staff leaving, new pundit Joey Barton proving a loose cannon and Mike Parry attacking colleague Jim White on social media, it's imperative for the station that Brazil signs a new contract.

Interesting that Sale is framing this as Brazil wanting to hear management's plans for the show, as opposed to it being management weighing up whether to retain him on their flagship show for another year/number of years. The bit about him wanting to hear their plans for who his co-hosts will be is particularly intriguing - maybe he's as keen on Joey Barton as most of the people who contribute to this thread are?

Yes that is very interesting Diff, especially the bit about TS thinking it ‘imperative’ they retain the services of Brazil. I do think you have the Joey Barton reference right

Isn’t it very late in the day to be discussing contract negotiations? Brinkmanship is not always the best way to go ....

If that bit of Sale's report is true, I think it has to be related to Barton's recent arrival. I just can't see Alan having an issue working with any of the other co-hosts he is currently paired with - the likes of Ray Parlour and Ally McCoist - people who, whatever you think of their broadcasting skills, seem to be easy going and straight forward to get on with.